Just checked Matty's site and saw a new press release about SDCC here. It mentions a new in booth experience related to something called Movie Masters Epic Creations. Here is what it has to say:

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Movie Masters® Epic Creations™– See how Mattel brings the magic of the movies to life in toy form with this first-ever in-booth museum! The Movie Masters™ Epic Creations™ line delivers playsets, vehicles, cosplay accessories and more from some of the most popular entertainment properties of all time. Developed hand-in-hand with film and television studios, every Epic Creations™ product brings to life the superior detail, accurate articulation, and premier features adult collectors expect.

Playsets, vehicles, and cosplay accessories? Sure doesn't sound like the current movie masters line. Could this be one of the "new" lines Toyguru mentioned?

hm. wonder if this is gonna be kind of like medicom's line, I forget what it's called, but so far it's had the amazing spiderman and tdkr batman. I mean, i'm sure there will be obvious proprietary issues, but could this be something that fleshes out existing movie masters lines or just absorbs movie masters entirely? like, maybe we'll see a gozer, a talia al ghul, a clark kent and a...um, some character from green lantern hanging on pegs alongside johnny depp as hunter s Thompson, malcom McDowell as Alex DeLarge and dustin Hoffman as captain hook?

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I agree... this could be a unified Movie Masters line that covers all movie licenses they currently have the rights to, and would offer them a way of doing one-shot characters from different films without having to commit to a full wave of figures based on any particular movie. For example, a Christopher Reeve Superman, a Michael Keaton Batman, one or more random Ghostbuster characters, or maybe even a Marty McFly.

If Ecto-1, the Terror Dogs, Gozer and Janine make it out onto shelves after I just f***ing sold all my Ghostbusters Movie Masters figures, I'm gonna raise the dead up in this piece. Or dude, a firehouse? Ugh. That would be so sick. Although, if they're part of a umbrella line, would they have the same packaging as the old ones? Cause I'm an MOC guy, so it'd have to be pretty close to uniform. Nonetheless, they start making GB figures again and/or vehicles and playsets, and I'll probably start buyin em again and go back to ebay and get all the ones I just sold.

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I think it's a Proton Pack. Don't know for sure, so take it with grain of salt; but it makes sense on account of all the other GB stuff.

Maybe, but why keep it hidden to unveil after their panel if they chose to already show the rod?? If it is the proton pack, then that makes 3 prop replicas shown for this new MM line. Where's the diversity of figures, playsets, and vehicles too?

If Ecto-1, the Terror Dogs, Gozer and Janine make it out onto shelves after I just f***ing sold all my Ghostbusters Movie Masters figures, I'm gonna raise the dead up in this piece. Or dude, a firehouse? Ugh. That would be so sick. Although, if they're part of a umbrella line, would they have the same packaging as the old ones? Cause I'm an MOC guy, so it'd have to be pretty close to uniform. Nonetheless, they start making GB figures again and/or vehicles and playsets, and I'll probably start buyin em again and go back to ebay and get all the ones I just sold.

Nice, Mattel.

Removable Packs should have been the way the did it from day 1. I actually am not disappointed that I got rid of my old gbmm's if they're redoing all 4 of them with removable packs. although, it never mattered to me, I guess, because I never opened them. I will be opening all four of these and putting them in the car, though.

Sooooo...I wonder if Ecto-1 does well, could it lead to a rooftop diorama with the Traveler and the Terror Dogs? They said Epic Creations would include playsets, too, and I just cannot imagine being able to do a firehouse the way it should be done. most of the action took place in the basement. maybe they could just do pieces of environments that could be displayed separately? makes me long for the days of palisades' muppets playsets. you couldn't make it one full playset practically, not to mention it would be the size of a piece of furniture and cost a grand. then again, the rooftop diorama would HAVE to include the figures, which is what everyone would actually be buying them for, so maybe that doesn't even really count as a playset, anymore than stay puft did. maybe they could do the banquet room from the sedgewick? which is not to say that Ghostbusters is their target playset property, necessarily, but I feel like all the eggs are going in the ecto basket.

oh, snap, I wonder if this could portend a tumbler for the dkmm line?

_________________The fact that humans think they're the only animals with souls makes them the most soulless animals of all.

If Ecto-1, the Terror Dogs, Gozer and Janine make it out onto shelves after I just f***ing sold all my Ghostbusters Movie Masters figures, I'm gonna raise the dead up in this piece. Or dude, a firehouse? Ugh. That would be so sick. Although, if they're part of a umbrella line, would they have the same packaging as the old ones? Cause I'm an MOC guy, so it'd have to be pretty close to uniform. Nonetheless, they start making GB figures again and/or vehicles and playsets, and I'll probably start buyin em again and go back to ebay and get all the ones I just sold.

Nice, Mattel.

Removable Packs should have been the way the did it from day 1.

From what I understand,that's how the 4HM had originally sculpted/intended for them to be. The adjustable straps would have allowed you to put the pack on any type of figure. Mattel changed that from the early prototypes for safety & cost cutting...

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